Mike Solin died peacefully at home, surrounded by his loving family, at the age of 98. A very well-attended memorial service, with military honors, was held for him at Sleepy Hollow Country Club in Scarborough-on-Hudson, New York on September 12th. He was the last of eight children, with four older brothers and three sisters, to prosperous merchant and business owner Jacob and Feigel ('Fannie') Solin. In June, 1942 upon graduation from Massachusetts State College (BS in Economics), he enlisted in the Army Air Corps and trained at the Aviation Cadet program at Yale University as an Engineering Officer. Graduating first in his class, he selected the First Radio Squadron in Dayton, Ohio and was trained in RADAR, IFF, and other airborne electronic technology. He was sent to the Pacific Theatre, serving as a Lieutenant in Darwin, Australia during the New Guinea Campaign. Promoted Captain, he served in the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theatre in charge of a specialized unit at Bangalore, India that equipped allied aircraft with advanced electronics. Following the war, he moved to Paris and studied at the Sorbonne, receiving a Diplôme in French Culture & Civilization, and then returned to the U.S. to earn an MBA in 1947 from the University of Michigan. He moved to New York City and joined the Film Division at McGraw-Hill, first as an Editor, then Director, and then Acquisitions Manager. He left in 1962 to start ‘Myron Solin Productions’, later founding Benchmark Films, Inc. (now Benchmark Media) – an independent producer and distributor of educational films throughout North America, and later internationally through video and online streaming. His early productions included two groundbreaking educational films on the links between smoking and lung cancer, titled Is Smoking Worth It? (1962) and A Breath of Air (1968). Both were widely distributed throughout classrooms in the United States by the American Cancer Society. Benchmark Films, Inc. produced and distributed award-winning documentary films on African wildlife and ecosystems, innovatively filmed by Joan and Alan Root, as well as an original series on the life and work of wildlife conservationists George and Joy Adamson of ‘Born Free’ fame. He was an accomplished squash player and well known on the amateur circuit. A member of the winning U.S. squash teams, in 1961 and 1965, that competed against Canada for the International Squash Racquets’ Lapham Trophy. He was a five-time national hardball champion, and two-time national softball champion. He served as President of the Metropolitan Squash Racquets Association (MSRA) from 1982 to 1985. He is survived by his dear wife of 30 years; by two devoted step-daughters and sons-in-law; fondly by seven step-grandchildren; also, from a first marriage, two sons.